Re: Where can I get Digital Unix cheap?

["Street Dreams" <strdream iserv net>]

> Hello Jeff
> 
> >What License comes with that box?  Is it for NT, VMS, DU or does it come
> >with no license?  I looked it up and it just said it was a building
block
> >PC.  Does anyone know how much a VMS License would be? 
> 
> DU media never ships with a license.
> 
> Single user base license for OpenVMS is $2100.00.  REMEMBER, that does
not
> include any type of NAS license which you need for networking.

Does this mean to be a server or just to sit on a network?

Ach.  No wonder Unix or VMS never sold very well.  When computer compainies
sell their DESKTOP OS (SUN, SGI, IBM, DEC, etc) at over 500$ and complain
that NT is taking their market share is dropping, they deserve the beating.
 It does bug me that UNIX used to be free and "open", now it's a vanguard
of don't-sit-there-until-you-pay-us-dearly companies.  We all have to be
honest - DEC's been at the game sometimes more so than the others.  Now
their reward for having their pants down: Windows on x86.  Cheap on cheap. 
Crap, yes, but it won anyway.  And the winner is:  the lowest common
denominator.  Well, computers wouldn't have been popular or widespread w/o
WIntel, so maybe it was (slightly) for the better for consumers in general.

What was that quote from that one stupid blockbuster? "Do you realize that
we're sitting on 4 million pounds of fuel, a nuclear weapon, space suits, a
spaceship, for which failure of anything means death - was all built by the
lowest bidder?"

Jeff D.